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THOMAS E. DE LACY, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.

HOSIERY FORM.

Application filed November 5, 1921.

To all whom t 'may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS H. DE LACY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mer-cer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hosiery Forms, of which the following is a speciiication, refw erence being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to hosiery forms designed to hold the hosiery and shape the same while the hosiery is being dried, and particularly to means for holding the hosiery on the forms so as to prevent the stockings from shrinking or slipping up on the forms.

ln the operation of what is known as boarding or pressing hosiery, the stockings come to the pressing room to be applied to the boards usually in a dampened condition and the stockings are then drawn on boards or forms having the desired shape, these boards or forms being either internally heated or when not heated internally the forms are placed in a drying boi; which is heated, or again the stockings may be drawn upon unheated boards or forms and allowed to air dry, the stockings assuming the shape of the boards or forms on which they are dried.

In this operation and with practically all commercial forms known to me, there has always been great difficulty experienced in keeping` the stockings from slipping or shrinking up on the forms, this condition being greatly aggravated if the form be of metal. This is easily seen when the class ticity inherent in all hosiery is considered. Various devices have been provided to remedy this defect, none of which, however, have been wholly successful. For instance, one of the means which has been in large use for reventing the slipping of the stocking on t e form consists ofa web or pad of a plushlike material having the nap or pile projecting at an angle to the surface of the web, this being glued to the form so that when the stocking is drawn on the form this projecting pile will engage in the meshes of the stocking and prevent thestocking from shrinking or slipping down. Owing to the fact that the stocking is drawn on the form in a dampened condition, however, this device, due to its nature, prevents the heat from penetrating the stocking and thus when the stocking is withdrawn from Serial No. 513,157.

the form, that portion of the stocking which has been engaged over this strip of plush like material is undried and for this reason this particular device has always been a source of trouble. Furthermore, the glue or adhesive which is used to secure these plush strips to the forms soon softens or cracl's and they have to be constantly glued in place and again the plush soon becomes so soft and the pile so flaccid that it will not hold the stocking in place.

The general object of this invention is to overcome this objection and provide a very simple means applicable to stocking terms used in drying which will hold the stocking from wrinkling or slipping upon the form but which will permit the free circulation of air, either heated or cold, through the portion of the stocking over the holding device.

A further object is to provide a holder of this character which will permit the hosiery to be readily removed or withdrawn from the form and which when used in connection with interiorly heated forms will become liust as hot as the form itself.

A still further object is to provide a device of this character which may be readily applied to forms and which is formed of tine woven wire or gauze so that the mesh of the wire will enter into or correspond to the mesh oi the stocking and, therefore, secure a .clinging action of the stocking to the strip or holding device and, therefore, to the form.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure l is a side elevation of a stocking form with my device applied thereto;

Figure 2 is an elevation of a sock form with the sock holding device applied thereto 5 Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view showing the joint between the two ends of the holder;

Figure l is an elevation of the holder before it is applied to the form;

Figure 5 is a section on the line of Figure l;

In Figure l, A designates a stocking form which may be of wood, metal, composition, or -any suitable material and which may be hollow to permit the circulation of hot air or steam within the form for the purpose of drying, or which may be solid. it

will be understood that this form is of Conventional character and that my device is applicable to all forms.

Disposed around the form A at any desired location on this form is a strip of line Woven Wire or Wire gauze, designated 10. rlhis strip in actual practice is approximately three or four inches in Width for stocking forms and is so cut as to fit the shape of the forni Where the device is to be applied. Preferably the upper and lower edges of the strip are inwardly folded, as at 1l, or any suitable binding might be used if desired. Preferably one end of the strip is at right angles to the edges of the strip but the opposite end of the strip is slightly diagonal to the strip, and attached to the ends of the gauze strip are transverse narrouT strips of metal, designated l2, these strips having free portions 1.8 which may be bent over upon the body of the strip so as to provide interlocking flanges on the strip. Thus when the device is applied to the form, as illustrated in Figure these interlocking flanges arc engaged with each other and fiattened doivn so that the strip is firmly bound upon the form El..

ln Figure 2, illustrate form of strip l0 Which is used for the support of a sock which is to all intents and purposes the same as the strip heretofore described, except that the lower portion of the strip on opposite sides is cut away, -as at l/l, so as t0 more perfectly fit the form.

I do not Wish to be limited to the particular means for holding` the strip upon the form. It Will be seen that this strip l0 when it is upon the form constitutes a collar surrounding the form and litting' the same, and this collar might be formed in one piece and slipped does the Woven nature of the strip l0 provide a foi'aminated strip whereby the heat from the forni itself or the air from the exterior of the form may pass through the stocking and circulate, but the Woven nature of the strip Causes it to be uneven noon its outer surface and this roughness or i evenness of the strip Will permit the e mesh of the stocking to enter, as it were, into the depressions and conform to the projections of the Woven Wire of Which the strip is made and thus the stockingl will be held firmly in place against slipping by this holding strip 10.

I claim l. The combination with a hosiery forni having a smooth surface, of a strip of foraminated metal attached to the of the hosiery form, the strip being roughened upon its outer surface.

2. The combination With a hosiery form having a smooth surface, of a stocking holding device comprising a strip of woven Wire applied to the outer surface thereof.

The combination With a hosiery forni, of a stocking holding device applied thereto comprising a fora-initiated metal collar closely embracing the form and having an exteriorly roughened surface.

ll. rlhe combination with a hosiery form, of stocking holding means applied thereto comprising a collar of Woven Wire embracing the form.

In testimony whereof l hereunto affix my signature.

THOMAS H. DE LACY. 

